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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The fix for bug 385658 redoes how card detection works with -nv and may
solve this bug. Please test Karmic-beta or newer and verify if it does.

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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[nv9400gm] X fails to start on MacBook 5,2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422463
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Booting from the latest daily liveCD of karmic fails on a MacBook 5,2. Everything loads fine except for the graphical environment, which crashed saying it can't find any displays.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep  1 09:53:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090901)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.13
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64



[lspci]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] [10de:0866] (rev b1)
    	Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00b1]